Leverage in a sentence as a noun

You could have leveraged this open sourcing in several ways.

Both sides are trying to use whatever leverage they have to negotiate the best possible deal.

✓Have an existing audience you can leverage to get some random Google employee's attention?

There is an interesting unbalance because Comcast has so much leverage by owning the last mile, they can push around Tier 1 providers.

And clients, who came to hold the leverage, used it to demand billing concessions: lower rates, caps, fixed-fee arrangements, discounts, and the like.

Presumably he knew the odds that "they" would track him down anyway, and by going public he has a chance to leverage popular public sentiment as a shield of sorts.

Leverage in a sentence as a verb

As a hacker, having > agency over your world is critical to fully explore the boundaries > of problems and find how to best leverage your solutions.

That was the gamble apparently made by the Winklevoss brothers - that they would be able to exact a much larger settlement as a result of their leverage obtained from having the issues re-opened.

Our general plan here is to expose nearly everything in NewsGator Online via API, and allow folks to build applications that leverage our platform in unique ways.

The key to the low rates rests on Zidisha’s avoidance of costly staff and operations on the ground, and its ability to leverage low-cost funds from socially-motivated lenders.

It only uses rAF to batch rendering, so multiple repaints are throttled to a minimum of 16ms ===The on-screen issue is interesting; I need to think about it more to see if we can actually leverage it in production apps.

In such cases, with institutional investors, you may still find yourself arguing about valuation in negotiating caps but the process is nowhere near as involved as it is with a typical equity round and founders with leverage can usually dispense with caps as well.

Leverage definitions

noun

the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever

See also: purchase

noun

strategic advantage; power to act effectively; "relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage"

noun

investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)

See also: leveraging

verb

supplement with leverage; "leverage the money that is already available"

verb

provide with leverage; "We need to leverage this company"